How to do something, and not to do too much, is the desideratum.
EIGHTH
We mean to be as deliberate and calm as it is possible to be; but as firm and resolved as it is possible for men to be.
NINTH
He that will fight to keep himself a slave, ought to be a slave.
TENTH
If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
ELEVENTH
Under all this seeming want of life and motion, the world does move nevertheless.